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The outsourcing of the design and manufacturing of integrated circuits (ICs) in the current horizontal semiconductor integration flow has posed various security threats due to the presence of untrusted entities, such as overproduction of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuqiao Zhang , Ayush Jain , Pinchen Cui , Ziqi Zhou , Ujjwal Guin

Driven by a need for ever increasing chip performance and inclusion of innovative features, a growing number of semiconductor companies are opting for all-inclusive System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. Although Moore's Law has been able to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aleksa Deric , Kyle Mitard , Shahin Tajik , Daniel Holcomb

Systems-on-chip (SoCs) are becoming heterogeneous: they combine general-purpose processor cores with application-specific hardware components, also known as accelerators, to improve performance and energy efficiency. The advantages of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Luca Piccolboni , Giuseppe Di Guglielmo , Luca Carloni

Ensuring predictability in modern real-time Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) is an increasingly critical concern for many application domains such as automotive, robotics, and industrial automation. An effective approach involves the modeling and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Luca Valente , Francesco Restuccia , Davide Rossi , Ryan Kastner , Luca Benini

Network-on-Chips (NoCs) have been widely employed in the design of multiprocessor system-on-chips (MPSoCs) as a scalable communication solution. NoCs enable communications between on-chip Intellectual Property (IP) cores and allow those…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Simran Preet Kaur , Manojit Ghose , Ananya Pathak , Rutuja Patole

Directly switching optical signals outperforms conventional optoelectronic hardware in terms of cost, latency, and energy efficiency, and is expected to address the growing demand for data node capacity driven by the development of machine…

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is currently the paradigm of choice to interconnect the different components of System-on-Chips (SoCs) or Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). As the levels of integration continue to grow, however, current NoCs face…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón

Integrated circuit (IC) camouflaging is a promising technique to protect the design of a chip from reverse engineering. However, recent work has shown that even camouflaged ICs can be reverse engineered from the observed input/output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Mohamed El Massad , Siddharth Garg , Mahesh Tripunitara

In order to protect the security of network data, a high speed chip module for encrypting and decrypting of network data packet is designed. The chip module is oriented for internet information security SOC (System on Chip) design. During…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Yixin Liu , Haipeng Zhang , Tao Feng

Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has been proposed as an auspicious solution to handle the strict communication requirements between the increasingly large number of cores on a single multi and many-core chips. However, NoC systems are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Khanh N. Dang , Yuichi Okuyama , Abderazek Ben Abdallah

Constrained devices in IoT networks often require to outsource resource-heavy computations or data processing tasks. Currently, most of those jobs are done in the centralised cloud. However, with rapidly increasing number of devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Michał Król , Ioannis Psaras

Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modularity, yield, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Giorgio Di Natale , Christelle Rabache , Pierre-Louis Hellier , Florence Podevin , Sylvain Bourdel , Romain Siragusa , Paolo Maistri

This paper presents the evaluation of a Network-on-Chip (NoC) that offers load balancing for Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) dedicated for multimedia applications that require high traffic of variable bitrate communication. The NoC is based on a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Marcelo Daniel Berejuck

Intellectual Property (IP) theft is a serious concern for the integrated circuit (IC) industry. To address this concern, logic locking countermeasure transforms a logic circuit to a different one to obfuscate its inner details. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Qinhan Tan , Seetal Potluri , Aydin Aysu

Leveraging 2.5D interposer technology, we advocate the integration of untrusted commodity components/chiplets with physically separate, entrusted logic components. Such organization provides a modern root of trust for secure system-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Mohammed Nabeel , Mohammed Ashraf , Satwik Patnaik , Vassos Soteriou , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Johann Knechtel

Integration of CPU and GPU technologies is a key enabler for modern AI and graphics workloads, combining control-oriented processing with massive parallel compute capability. As systems evolve toward chiplet-based architectures, pre-silicon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nij Dorairaj , Debabrata Chatterjee , Hong Wang , Hong Jiang , Alankar Saxena , Altug Koker , Thiam Ern Lim , Cathrane Teoh , Chuan Yin Loo , Bishara Shomar , Anthony Lester

Secure and trustworthy execution in heterogeneous SoCs is a major priority in the modern computing system. Security of SoCs mainly addresses two broad layers of trust issues: 1. Protection against hardware security threats(Side-channel, IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Muhammed Kawser Ahmed , Sujan Kumar Saha , Christophe Bobda

IoT applications are one of the driving forces in making systems energy and power-efficient, given their resource constraints. However, because of security, latency, and transmission, we advocate for local computing through multi-processor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Anderson I. Silva , Altamiro Susin , Fernanda L. Kastensmidt , Antonio Carlos S. Beck , Jose Rodrigo Azambuja

Single-event upset (SEU) fault tolerance for systems-on-chip (SoCs) in radiation-heavy environments is often addressed by architectural fault-tolerance approaches protecting individual SoC components (e.g., cores, memories) in isolation.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Michael Rogenmoser , Philippe Sauter , Chen Wu , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

The CMOS integrated chips at advanced technology nodes are becoming more vulnerable to various sources of faults like manufacturing imprecisions, variations, aging, etc. Additionally, the intentional fault attacks (e.g., high power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-08 Naveen Kumar Macha , Bhavana Tejaswini Repalle , Sandeep Geedipally , Rafael Rios , Mostafizur Rahman